Army Museum in Istanbul, the Janissaries of the Mehter, the band's oldest military Demus world, interpreted with drums, cymbals and trumpets old parade marches. Visitors will cheer. Some sound like they gladly heard in Alicante fiestas of Moors and Christians, but others, with scores based on percussion and screaming soldiers, can imagine the terrifying deterrent to the enemy.
In the eighteenth century, Europeans began to copy the custom Turkish music to accompany the progress of their armies. The sound of the Mehter was the voice of the Ottoman Empire in the battlefields of Europe and northern Africa. Turkey, its natural heir, national and Muslim-majority secular constitution, wants to make their voices heard now that the wave of riots in the Arab world as a great advocate haven of political stability in the Islamic Mediterranean.
The moderate Islamist government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is postulated as a model of balance-Erdogan was the first to deploy to Mubarak to comply with the rebellion in Egypt and to ask himself what Gaddafi in Libya, "and seeks to consolidate its influence in the Middle East and earn more in the Caucasus, Russia and Central Asia.
This diplomatic effort to advance the economy, companies and Turkish workers are being made by neighboring countries, "according to the soft power strategy advocated by the Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Join the European Union remains the focus of its foreign policy, but increasingly looking to other regions, not in vain for a recent survey indicated that 54% of Turks embraces Europe, when reached by 80%.
Even the president, Abdullah Gül, provided counsel to enter the EU, has said that this income is not crucial for Turkey, "because the world does not end in the European Union." The radical wing of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), Erdogan is almost ruled out that the country is admitted into the EU, so called to focus energies on other scenarios.
"When you look at the Middle East, Turkey teething of the Ottoman Empire," jokes Ibrahim Eren, extension of Turkish history. But geopolitical aspirations encounter such feelings are deeply rooted in the Arab soul. "The Arabs do not like anything that would raise the Turkish model as an alternative," says a Salesian Spanish resident in Istanbul, just arrived from Cairo.
On Egyptian television looked young Tahrir Square telling Erdogan that does not give lessons to their country. " So, and Libya during the civil war, Erdogan cautious and does not propose to the Arab follow the Turkish model, but believes that "can be a source of inspiration because Turkey has shown that Islam and democracy can coexist perfectly," as told France Presse.
The opposition, however, believes that Erdogan and his men pursue an underground Islamization of society, using his late-secularism of the army-proclaimed protector and eroding the judiciary and press freedom. The elections will be held next June, and the AKP seem likely to win again. 
In the eighteenth century, Europeans began to copy the custom Turkish music to accompany the progress of their armies. The sound of the Mehter was the voice of the Ottoman Empire in the battlefields of Europe and northern Africa. Turkey, its natural heir, national and Muslim-majority secular constitution, wants to make their voices heard now that the wave of riots in the Arab world as a great advocate haven of political stability in the Islamic Mediterranean.
The moderate Islamist government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is postulated as a model of balance-Erdogan was the first to deploy to Mubarak to comply with the rebellion in Egypt and to ask himself what Gaddafi in Libya, "and seeks to consolidate its influence in the Middle East and earn more in the Caucasus, Russia and Central Asia.
This diplomatic effort to advance the economy, companies and Turkish workers are being made by neighboring countries, "according to the soft power strategy advocated by the Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Join the European Union remains the focus of its foreign policy, but increasingly looking to other regions, not in vain for a recent survey indicated that 54% of Turks embraces Europe, when reached by 80%.
Even the president, Abdullah Gül, provided counsel to enter the EU, has said that this income is not crucial for Turkey, "because the world does not end in the European Union." The radical wing of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), Erdogan is almost ruled out that the country is admitted into the EU, so called to focus energies on other scenarios.
"When you look at the Middle East, Turkey teething of the Ottoman Empire," jokes Ibrahim Eren, extension of Turkish history. But geopolitical aspirations encounter such feelings are deeply rooted in the Arab soul. "The Arabs do not like anything that would raise the Turkish model as an alternative," says a Salesian Spanish resident in Istanbul, just arrived from Cairo.
On Egyptian television looked young Tahrir Square telling Erdogan that does not give lessons to their country. " So, and Libya during the civil war, Erdogan cautious and does not propose to the Arab follow the Turkish model, but believes that "can be a source of inspiration because Turkey has shown that Islam and democracy can coexist perfectly," as told France Presse.
The opposition, however, believes that Erdogan and his men pursue an underground Islamization of society, using his late-secularism of the army-proclaimed protector and eroding the judiciary and press freedom. The elections will be held next June, and the AKP seem likely to win again.
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